This collecting area honors Professor Emeritus Scott Molloy’s commitment to the documentation of the region’s labor, industrial, and transit history. It encompasses collections of primary source material produced or collected by organizers and researchers as well as the records of unions. Molloy has been helping UASC build our collections in this area since 2009.
- Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 618 (Providence, R.I.) Records
Gr.233; 1913-1996; 3.5 linear feet - Brown and Sharpe Labor Strikes Collection
Gr.219; 1853-1997; 2.25 linear feet - Edwin C. Brown Labor Union Collection
Gr.230; 1953-1984; 5 linear feet - Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection
Gr.231; 1904-2000; 2 linear feet - Duane Clinker Labor and Community Organizing Papers
Processed; approximately 60 linear feet - Thomas Kane Collection of Rhode Island Transit Historical Records
Unprocessed; approximately 7 linear feet - MacAloon Labor Collection
Unprocessed; approximately 13 linear feet - Scott Molloy Papers
Gr.232.1; 1773-2024; 26.5 linear feet - Scott Molloy Research Collection
Gr.232; 1864-2009; 15 linear feet - Peter Ritchie Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Papers
Unprocessed; approximately 3 linear feet - Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Collection
Gr.234; 1891-2000; 3.75 linear feet - Arthur H. Riani and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodge 66 Papers
Gr.229; 1923-1989; 1.5 linear feet
Related materials: UASC also holds the records of the University’s faculty union, a local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and is the repository of a number of oral history projects documenting the lives of Rhode Island workers.
UASC is actively acquiring materials in this collecting area as resources allow. It seeks organizational records, personal papers, and other primary source material related to labor and the labor movement in the State of Rhode Island and to local industries. It also seeks similar collections that enhance its current holdings related to transit and transportation in the region with a particular interest in the intersection of labor and transit. Please see UASC Collecting Policy (forthcoming) for more information about what UASC does and does not collect.
UASC also seeks funding to support the arrangement and description of unprocessed collections. Please contact Director Karen Walton Morse if you would like to make a donation.